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For live, brief weekly updates of county news, tune in Wednesdays to the Zia Country Morning Show at approximately 7:15 a.m. at 99.5 on your dial, and on Magic 105 at approximately 7:50 a.m., and on Your Morning Show at approximately 8:15 a.m. on KVLC, 101-Gold. On Thursday mornings, you can tune in to the KGRT Morning Country Show at approximately 7:15 a.m., then on KSNM 98.7 from about 8:25-8:33, and finally on HOT 103.1's Morning Show (approx. 8:10-8:15.

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Doña Ana County Manager Brian D. Haines has announced the hiring of Jesse David ‘Dave’ Wooley as Detention Center administrator and Alfred Paul Chavez as county fire marshal. Both began work for Doña Ana County on Aug. 23, 2004.

Sheriff Juan Hernandez has announced that Doña Ana County will be the first county in New Mexico to secure $450,000 in state Department of Transportation funding for two deputies whose sole focus will be DWI arrests and prosecution.

The Doña Ana County Sheriff's Department Community Policing Division will team up with Sun Lanes Saturday, Aug. 21, from 9 a.m. to noon, to offer youths aged 6 to 16 an opportunity for free bowling and entertainment in a tobacco- and alcohol-free environment.

Crews from Doña Ana County and Elephant Butte Irrigation District remain on scene at a large ponding area east of the Bruce King Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum this morning, where standing water in a sand quarry is being diverted to a retention dam east of the NMSU Golf Course.

Public Information officials of the Dona Ana County/City of Las Cruces Emergency Operations Center will hold a press conference at 2:15 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16 in the southwest parking lot of the Public Health Building at 1170 N. Solano Dr.

Geothermal Drive has been opened east to Dripping Springs Road as an alternate route for residents seeking access to the Talavera area. Dripping Springs Road has been closed since before noon while significant water run-off makes its way to a large retention area east of the NMSU Golf Course.